The World-System theory was used by the video implicitly to explain the causes of wealth accumulation and poverty.In the World-System theory, countries are separated into three different classes, the core, semiperiphery, and periphery. The core consists of powerful countries like United Kingdom and United States. Manufacturing regions are called core, extraction regions are called periphery, and regions where some manufacturing occurs and some capital concentrates are called semiperiphery. Most peripheral countries are in Africa and South Asia, where large amounts of raw materials were exported to the core countries during colonization as well as after colonization to be manufactured and sold in a much higher price. The video gave an example of how all the wheat in India was exported to Great Britain when it could have fed thousands of poor inside the country. Semiperiphery countries acts as a buffer to this system by giving periphery countries a small chance to rise out of poverty. These countries include Singapore, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, and Russia. However, most periphery regions remained extremely poor. This is shown in the movie when the rich countries (core) dump money into the poor countries (periphery). The World-Theory puts countries into economic classes, which is fully explain in the video with countries like the United States and India.
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